India, June 8 -- This is a frustration that only the high-end smartphone buyers in India can relate to. You spend Rs 1,25,000 on an iPhone 17 Pro. You set it up. You attempt to use Siri as you saw it being used - ask it to check your calendar, summarise a message, etc. Then you find out that the most touted feature of the most expensive cell phone you ever owned doesn't work in your native tongue.

As of WWDC 2026, Apple Intelligence Hindi support remains unavailable, with no full support for Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Marathi, Bengali and several other major Indian languages. It doesn't have Tamil, Telugu, Marathi, Bengali, or any of the other languages that hundreds of millions of Indians speak daily as their primary language. For many users...